"The pornography filtering system praised by David Cameron is controlled by the controversial Chinese company Huawei, the BBC has learned. UK-based employees at the firm are able to decide which sites TalkTalk's net filtering service blocks." The irony. It hurts.

I despise the whole thing with a passion, but really would this have been any less controversial with a system developed elsewhere?

Yes it would.

See, censorship in a democracy is already VERY controversial. Then the fact that they use tax payer money to fund a Chinese supplied system makes the already VERY controversial into a holy-fuck controversial.

See, people aren't saying that it's only controversial because Huawei is selling the system. You would have noticed that there's already discontent with the plan.

And now they're complaining that an already bad plan is revealed to be worse.